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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Nov 3, 2023
Event Planners: What to know about Neurodivergent attendees
And why neurodiversity can strengthen your event... Neurodiversity in the workplace and friend-space is something I feel passionately...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Oct 26, 2023
Neurodivergence in the Workplace
This is a bit of a departure from my normal post, but I've been discovering so much about myself and my peers in the Neuro-different...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Dec 26, 2022
Holiday Blues
Christmas was different this year. I couldn’t make myself put up decorations. Food started tasting like sawdust. I was struggling to get...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Nov 9, 2022
Coming in 2023...
I've owed everyone a massive "catch up" blog for -- now that I look at it -- well over a year. My life has shifted in directions that I...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Jul 7, 2021
Wanting it all. Having it all....and being scared.
WTF. I have everything I could ever want and more. Why the hell am I running? So I decided to write a book at the end of last year. I...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Oct 27, 2020
Chronic Illness is a bitch.
Here it is--- As women, we don't want to be seen as weak.
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Oct 20, 2020
GUILT.
Anyone struggling with a sea of guilt these days?
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Oct 12, 2020
Embrace Your Inner Badass!
You know what really empowers and EXCITES me these days? Knowing I have CONTROL! (Wait, what!? In THIS world? YES! In COVID...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Sep 14, 2020
The "P's" of 2020
Did you think I meant PIVOT?! Well....just wait a minute! So OK, I do ALSO mean to include Pivot--but there are a lot of better looking...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Jul 27, 2020
Giving Energy to What You LOVE (and why it is SO important)...
The most important thing I learned (or taught myself?) over the past 37 years is that my energy is finite. That my energy - personal and pr
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Jun 25, 2020
Calling out our own Bullsh*t
I've long wanted to write on this topic. There are so many of us that don't even realize that we are buying our own bullshit. What does...
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Carrie Abernathy CMP, CEM, CSEP
Jun 10, 2020
It's OK to not be OK
How are you doing? It seems like such a benign question. I've started answering it honestly...and boy has that changed my energy a lot.
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Meg Reilley
May 29, 2020
My First (and Scariest) Post
I've never been a story teller. And then again, I guess in some ways I've always been one.
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